Criminal Justice

John Huffington was wrongly convicted of double murder in Harford County in 1981, in a case so flawed that the lead prosecutor was ultimately disbarred for his conduct in the case. Huffington was pardoned earlier this year.

The Baltimore Police Department is asking for community feedback on a policy that would guide its use of small unmanned aircrafts, or drones, for aerial surveillance.

An investigation found that the state improperly rounded up and rounded down the hours worked by employees at state-run prisons and jails, cheating them out of pay they had earned.

The teenager was transported to a hospital, where he died. The remaining victims’ injuries are considered non-life-threatening, police said.

Radio communications from the Southern District indicated that police were well aware of a massive crowd nearing 1,000 people gathered at Brooklyn Homes.

The Maryland Office of the Attorney General has also identified the five officers involved in the shooting.

The city is “gearing up every resource” to keep people safe on the July Fourth holiday, Mayor Brandon Scott said Monday.

City Council committee will hold a hearing on July 13 about the shooting at the Brooklyn Day block party that left 2 dead and 28 wounded.

Two people were killed and a staggering 28 were injured in Sunday’s mass shooting in Brooklyn. Here’s what you need to know.

The shooting at the annual Brooklyn Day block party is the most people shot in one incident in Baltimore since at least 2015.

WMAR-2 News made the right choice in pulling down a documentary trailer about the 2018 Capital Gazette killings in Annapolis, Baltimore Banner Public Editor DeWayne Wickham says.

A round up of The Baltimore Banner's cannabis coverage.

Mosby’s attorneys cite a poll that showed negative attitudes toward the former city state's attorney in the Baltimore region.

Baltimore County Circuit Judge Dennis M. Robinson Jr. said Neil Adleberg, 75, of Reisterstown, was not on trial for being “overbearing, manipulative, creepy, obsessive or a micromanager — because those aren’t crimes.”

The Baltimore Police Department is switching to encrypted radio systems and devices, delaying public access to live audio streams of police activity.

Acting Commissioner Richard Worley said a suspect wanted on a warrant fired an automatic weapon at officers.

Attorneys for the families of the fallen firefighters said investigators have kept them informed about the investigation and that they were told of the burglary charges.

The county has grappled in recent months with an increase in thefts, vandalism and burglaries targeting several places of worship.

Texas recently banned juvenile curfews, while cities like Baltimore and Memphis have doubled-down on them

Annapolis hosted a ceremony Wednesday at the Guardians of the First Amendment memorial to remember victims of the 2018 Annapolis Capital shooting.